John Fenwick (MP for Morpeth)

John Fenwick (died 2 July 1644) was a Member of Parliament from Northumberland who was killed serving in the Royalist army during the First English Civil War.

John Fenwick
Battle of Marston Moor, where Fenwick was killed on 2 July 1644
Member of Parliament for Morpeth
In office November 1640 – January 1644 (excluded)
Personal details
Born	14 January 1602 Wallington Hall Yorkshire
Died	2 July 1644 Long Marston, North Yorkshire
Nationality	English
Spouse(s)	Mary Selby
Alma mater	Trinity College Cambridge
Occupation	Landowner and soldier
Military service
Allegiance	Royalist
Rank	Colonel
Unit	Colonel John Fenwick’s Troop of Dragoons
Battles/wars	First English Civil War Skirmish at Corbridge; Siege of Newcastle; Battle of Marston Moor  †

Personal details

Fenwick was the son of Sir John Fenwick, 1st Baronet of Wallington Hall, Northumberland; his mother Catherine was sister of Sir Henry Slingsby, executed in 1658 for his part in a Royalist conspiracy.[1]

He married Mary, daughter of Sir George Selby, of Whitehouse, County Durham.[2]

Career

Fenwick matriculated from Trinity College, Cambridge at Easter 1628. He was admitted at Gray's Inn on 28 April 1630.[2]

In November 1640, Fenwick was elected Member of Parliament for Morpeth, Northumberland in the Long Parliament.[3] In early 1644, he raised a troop of dragoons for the Royalist Northern Army; [4] and was excluded from Parliament on 22 January 1644.

His troop was at the siege of Newcastle, and a skirmish near Corbridge in 1644.[5] He was killed at the Battle of Marston Moor on 2 July 1644.[2]

References

1. Scott 2004.
2. "Fenwick, John (FNWK628J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
3. Willis 1750, p. 234.
4. Plant.
5. Hodgson & Hodgson-Hinde 1827, p. 256.

Sources

• Hodgson, John; Hodgson-Hinde, John (1827), A History of Northumberland: The topography and local antiquities, arranged in parishes, A History of Northumberland: In Three Parts, 1:2, E. Walker, p. 256
• Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 240, 247.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Plant, David. "Colonel John Fenwick's Troop of Dragoons". BCW Project. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
• Scott, David (2004). "Slingsby, Sir Henry, first baronet". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25727. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)